Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1887-01-25
new SERIES, VOL. xxi. NO. 4.

head of all the nations of the earth,
though still in her childhood has mas
ftered the monopilies and competition
of England throughout the world. A
few years hack, in our day, she fur
nished US with manufactures of our
own products, to-day we ship coal to
New Castle, steel to Sheffield, and
beef by the million to Old John Bull.
Imports are rapidly decreasing, while
exports are doubling over and over
until the year is not far off when they
will reach a round billion! With less
than fifty million people few years
ahead, with one hundred millions and
stretching from the Arctic to the Ant
arctic not the old Roman mistress of
the World, but the enlightened, in
spired Rnler and Leader of all the
nations of the earth, beginning with
its twentieth century. Where now is
the President of the Great Republic
of that day? Like old jackson learn
ing the rudiments as a charity boy,
or johnson the untutored pauper. or
like the immortal Washington driving
The red barbarian toward the Pacific,
or Frederick the iron monarch and
soldier of Europe, a waif cast upon
the world, unknown to history, fame
or his own native land. Where are
the Srcwarts. Rothschilds, Girards
and Clafins of that. great century?
Studying the theories that master the
intricacies and mysteries of that sys-
TEN that leads to certain success, and
which points out the quick and short
road-Cash, as lie shuns that other
devious, hard and winding road TO
ruin-or grasping the experience from
the wrecks and ruins. the struggles
and triumphs of the Nineteenth Cen
tu:y.
Take a glance at the Clafin of a hundred
years bence. business of a thousand millions.
palace twenty stories above. and ten under
the surface. talking through the cahletcle-
phones to their branches in England. China
and Australia: his agent crossing the Ocean in
fOurty-cight hours; his salesmen traversing the
Continent in a single day-NoS Well. suppose
some prophet had stood by Watts as he peered
through the twilight of the dark ages watching
the lid moving with life and whispered in his
ear that his kettle was the womb where nestled
the monster that would ope dav move the world
would have told Franklin that his kite was
tearing from nlSu ne1Scn JnaC mysterious
power that would carry his commands all over
the world in the twinkIing of thought-would
create midday from midnight ard awaken the
scmi-barbaric race from the slumber and stupOr
of ages-the answer would have come as II
came from GallilcO ringing his last words.
a. The Earth Moves" into the very teeth of the
wnrld-to the :nOrant Lilipuiian who bchead-
cd him-the answer would have come - 1T WILL
re So" And when this Circnlar is placed be-
fore Co'I pleading in your own int -res to aban-
don That deadly path-(f"r whoever crosses the
dcadline falls4. TO convert dead goods. dead
books and dead men into live cash. and fighting
upon the basis of cash only. hecdihg the admo-
HiTion of experience. IL will not he long ere
yOrr rapid strides to brilliant prosperity will
su prise you. and will cause yOu to wOOder why
yoa did not long ago (without wasting all these
precious yearS). travel over this short and easy
road Illuminated by the illnst.ious names of
the IsSTfnus pnsttrfd xrffv 30 riiaay Ifttstet
merchants go down that dreadful. hope
less and luckless road along whose side lay the
ruins of mlnv great I'd honorcd men.
whose ep;tIph is simply DEFEATED IN THE
SrRUGGLE WITH THE ChED-T SYSTEM"
There is n right aud a wrong-even there is
a short and n long road-and between the cash
and the credit 1t needs no gifted spirit of
prophecy to reveal the right way over which
in triumph yOu are destined to march. If YOU
listen to these words of PdnonitOn that will
crown you with the .aurels of victory, If you
make up your mind that it shall 3e So;
Melted down. the fact. experience and phi
losophy is simply this. that real values sold as
genuine bargains for the eloquent coin. will
command success from the very jump; there
will be no delay nor suspense. no running after
customers they will crowd your busy counters.
but you must have the bHrgains-nOt simply
the name but the solid Teality-and they must
beqnOted beyond the range of cash competition.
wheelharrOw of rattlimg hard hittcrs from
under the hammer viii drive you at once right
into prominence and prosperity. the quick.
rapid. close profits will outweigh the slow
Dutchman's one per cent. The sales OF the real
SIp itri mn "a
top those of the big concern at regular rates ON
unlimited timc-nOt alone the sales. but the
profits us well. Ten years ago we had next
door competitor. n rich. big proud credit con-
cOlcern who had more stock in his window
than VIC had in our store-he stuck TO his stiff.
regular time figures-his trade was aristocratic.
Onrs was the solid masses looking for double
duty of every dollar and every penny. We
went for him with savage intensity and in
less than months let the day light through his
palatial shop and when the hammer of the auc-
tioaecr fell Bob Jones printed our sign over his
front and he was crowded over the dead line
A short mouth of Waterloo work had driven us
from this Lp more extensive quarters. aad year
after year the iron rnls of close. quick profits
and solid values. pcrsistentiy drove us from
quarter to quarter To orr battle field of to-day.
Then there was North Carolina Davis. 81 400
in cash. True. we cSacted from hin the most
binding pledge that le would never sell a dime
time or go 30 above. that bottom minimum
of percentage. Int on that fourteen hundred he
sold In his first year one hundred thousand!
Sacredly lie kept inViolatc his promtSe-has
shaken the old North Slate from centre to cir
cumfcrence and laughs to scOrn the bare men
tion of million limit. The iron law has no
limit. rides over the improbable and impossible
with the same audacious unconcern. and com
Inands success for every merchant who has the
moral courage tn Tndersell every concern that
stands in his path, Udt always cash before
delivery"
CHARLES BROADWAY Rorss.
New York City.
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